Of 226 countries or territories with foreign travel advice pages, 73 are currently flagged as having no-go zones due to ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger officially left the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on January 29, having ...

Ambassador Mouloud Said, the representative of Western Sahara in Washington, disputed Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the territory at a Harvard Law School event on Monday.

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Home to one of the most diverse and vibrant people in the world, this landlocked country covers nearly 500,000 square miles ...

Located in north-west Africa, just 140 kilometers from the Canary Islands, Western Sahara is a desert landscape with an arid climate. Since 1973, the POLISARIO liberation front has been fighting ...

Libya's oil production struggles due to political conflict, but the country has vast potential for solar and wind energy ...

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France officially ended its decades-long military presence in Chad, its last stronghold in the West African region. The shift ...

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Water stress and hazards like withering droughts and devastating floods are hitting African communities, economies and ...